Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
Last week, as the rumors spread, the board called an emergency meeting-but not to do any firing. On.the contrary, said the Supervisors, Stoke had been doing such a fine job that they wanted to give him a formal vote of confidence. In case anyone had any doubts about the future of Harold Stoke, the board had a word from Earl Long: "I am glad to leave to your judgment," said the governor, "the administration of L.S.U. I have never interfered and will not interfere with the selection of those to head the university...
...Martin du Card's obsessing dread. When he heard that he had won the Nobel Prize, he stuffed a suitcase, told his servants he was taking a trip, strode out the door of his Nice apartment. Late that night he slipped back in. For several days, while rumors spread that he had been murdered, Martin du Gard worked quietly at home...
...match one undergraduate team's collections, handed over $103; a waitress gave her day's tips of $1.17. Some landladies of student boarding houses offered a month's free rent if the money were given to the college. As the local radio station and newspaper spread the story, more kept pouring...
...hand spread out on the table. It lives - it is me . . . It is lying on its back. It shows me its fat belly. It looks like an animal turned upside down. The fingers are the paws. I amuse myself by moving them very rapidly, like the claws of a crab which has fallen on its back . . . I can't suppress it, nor can I suppress the rest of my body, the sweaty warmth which soils my shirt . . . If I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness...